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Equality for all
Asia focus, Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 05/12/2016
» People with different sexual orientation and gender identity all over the world are speaking out louder as they battle against discrimination, criminalisation and negative attitudes in the workplace, social and political life.
Stakeholders chip Computer Crime Act
News, Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 24/11/2016
» The new Computer Crime Act (CCA) draft drew flak from stakeholders, including prominent law enforcers, at a parliamentary public hearing yesterday.
Student activists fight detention
News, Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 02/07/2016
» Students campaigning for debates on the constitutional referendum are preparing documents to challenge the detention authority of the military court as one of students has fallen sick behind bars, according to their lawyers.
Father, son convicted in mine assault case
News, Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 01/06/2016
» The Loei Provincial Court handed down two and three-year jail sentences respectively to a father and son, both military defendants, in a high-profile attack on anti-mining villagers in 2014.
Tom Dundee confesses to lese majeste
News, Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 31/05/2016
» Singer "Tom Dundee" pleaded guilty to committing lese majeste in the Criminal Court yesterday in what was seen as a precursory move to seek a royal pardon if he is handed a lengthy prison term.
Mining firm under fire over lawsuits
News, Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 13/02/2016
» A rights group is calling for a gold mining corporation in Loei to drop defamation cases lodged against several parties that include a 15-year-old schoolgirl.
Songkhla project puts villagers' livelihoods at risk
News, Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 30/10/2015
» Not only will 118 families, or some 500 people, in Songkhla's Tepha district be evicted by the Egat coal-fired power plant, but it is also widely feared that the Gulf of Thailand's ecosystem and the livelihoods of the people in the neighbouring districts in Songkhla and Pattani will be affected by sea contamination.
Supreme court acquits all protesters in Hat Yai gas pipeline riot
Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 21/10/2015
» SONGKHLA — The Supreme Court has dismissed riot charges against all 32 defendants arising from their protest in Hat Yai against the Thai-Malaysian gas project 13 years ago, in a ruling delivered on Wednesday.
Court indicts Andy Hall in migrant case
News, Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 25/08/2015
» The Southern Bangkok Criminal Court has indicted outspoken migrant rights activist Andy Hall on a criminal libel suit filed by the Thai pineapple processing company, Natural Fruit.
Key forensic re-testing sought
News, Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 10/07/2015
» Surat Thani: Defence lawyers expect the Koh Samui Provincial Court will decide Friday whether to allow a re-examination of forensic evidence in the trial of two Myanmar nationals accused of murdering two British tourists on Koh Tao.